Literature Quotes · Page 204

I suppose everybody does get attached to characters whether in movies or in stories, but I think that's part of the reason…

— Louis Menand

I think the more you understand myths, the more you understand the roots of our culture and the more things will resonate.…

— Rick Riordan

I had the most incredible English and literature teachers in school, and it really influenced my love of storytelling. It's what made…

— Sophia Bush

“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university…

— Roberto Bolaño

“Only if I knew that knowing it would bring a burden I could seldom carry and ferry among those I know, only…

— Alok Mishra

The story [Henny-Penny] has the best opening in all literature-"The sky is falling," cried Henny-Penny, "and a piece of it fell on…

— John Steinbeck

Whether you interpret the Bible as literature or as the final word of whatever God may be, Christianity has given us an…

— Marilyn Manson

Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's…

— Josh McDowell

For forty years I was conscripted by the absolute, the neurosis. The absolute is gone. There remain countless tasks among which literature…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It's like I'm stuck in a time bubble. Memories keep coming back, and of course, memories are a huge part of literature…

— Sonia Braga

Functions of technical information, historic record, analytic argument, which are integral and obvious to Dante's use of verse are now almost completely…

— George Steiner

I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature.

— Naguib Mahfouz

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

— Armand Assante

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in…

— Terry Eagleton

That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star.

— Miguel de Cervantes

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be…

— Charles Dickens

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

It's not a ladder we're climbing, it's literature we're producing. . . . We cannot possibly leave it to history as a…

— Nikki Giovanni

It is the glorious doom of literature that the evil perishes and the good remains.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Thus if the First Amendment means anything in this field, it must allow protests even against the moral code that the standard…

— William O. Douglas

There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though - ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the…

— Bentley Little

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

— Shane Warren Jones

I always wanted to be a cowboy. But alas! I was burdened early with certain inescapable obligations to world literature.

— Edward Abbey

You see Michelangelo and Picasso and you read literature. I had some innate inchoate yearning for that, but I never really saw…

— David Chase

“Well-wrought poems and works of imaginative literature can do for us what stone-cold prose can never do. They can help us grasp…

— James W. Sire